Everything about The Worshipful Company Of Cutlers totally explained
The
Worshipful Company of Cutlers is one of the
Livery Companies of the
City of London. The trade of knife making and repairing was organised in the thirteenth century; the organisation received a
Royal Charter later in
1416. The Company has lost a strong connection to its trade, which has shifted north to
Sheffield,
Yorkshire, where there's a similar association, the
Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire. Thus, it remains primarily as a charitable institution. It funds and administers a variety of educational initiatives such as scholarships and awards.
The Company ranks eighteenth in the
order of precedence of Livery Companies.
Arms were first granted to the Company in 1476. The current elephant and castle crest was granted in 1622. It features two elephants and three crossed-swords, a helmet and a smaller elephant and castle. The original
blazon reads: "Gules, three pairs of swords in saltire argent, hilts and pommels or Crest: An elephant's head couped gules, armed or".
The elephant probably relates to the ivory used in hafting swords, knives and other weapons - an expensive material employed for the best of implements.
The Company's
motto was originally "Pervenir a bonne foy", which later became "Pour parvenir a bonne foy", an
Anglo-Norman phrase meaning "To succeed through good faith."
Trivia
The elephant and castle crest gave rise to a pub of the same name on the site of an old cutler's in
Newington, London, which in turn gave its name to the entire area, the
Elephant and Castle.
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